All 9 Uses of
obligation
in
The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 2
- You're under no obligation to come back; you can do exactly what you choose; you can roam through space."†
Chpt 29
- What have I ever done to put him under an obligation to me?†
Chpt 41
- She had a great sense of beauty in all ways, and it involved a good many intellectual obligations.†
Chpt 44 *
- "If you mean that Lord Warburton's under an obligation to come back you're wrong," Isabel said.†
Chpt 46
- I told you so; and when you told me that you counted on me—that I think was what you said—I accepted the obligation.†
Chpt 46
- She didn't for a moment pretend that the desire to examine decaying civilisations had anything to do with her present enterprise; her journey was rather an expression of her independence of the old world than of a sense of further obligations to it.†
Chpt 47
- I wouldn't for the world be under such an obligation to Touchett as he has been to—to my wife and me.†
Chpt 48
- Your cousin is nothing whatever to me, and I'm under no obligation to make concessions to him.†
Chpt 51
- Certain obligations were involved in the very fact of marriage, and were quite independent of the quantity of enjoyment extracted from it.†
Chpt 55
Definition:
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(obligation) a duty